Carlisle Cemetery

Carlisle grew up around its school on what is now State Highway 114 and the Santa Fe line, five miles west of Lubbock. A Church of Christ congregation met there from 1918 to 1923, and by 1927 the Carlisle school was one of twenty-six rural districts in the county; in 1935 it joined Hurlwood, Wolfforth and Foster to form the Frenship district. In the 1940s the community had two stores and the largest vineyard in Northwest Texas. Carlisle was still listed as a community in 1983, and on January 27, 1984, Lubbock annexed it.

What the plaque says

Carlisle Cemetery The pioneer Carlisle community was named for W. Augustus "Uncle Gus" Carlisle (1849-1920), who settled here with his wife Lizzie (Spikes) (d. 1914) in 1890. A cattleman and a prominent landowner, Carlisle made significant contributions to the development of the area, including a donation of land for a school. In 1918 he set aside this part of his property for use as a public cemetery. It was first used for the burial of George W. Wood (b. 1879), a victim of the 1920 influenza epidemic. Other graves include those of pioneer area settlers and early leaders of Carlisle. Improvements by the Carlisle Cemetery Heritage Association included white crosses on graves with no markers. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2023

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Ranching Heritage Center — 5.4 mi
  A Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 5.8 mi
  A bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.
• Buddy Holly Center — 7.7 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• American Windmill Museum — 8.8 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.

More markers nearby

• Reese Air Force Base — 3.1 mi
• Coronado High School — 3.6 mi
• Dagley Field — 3.9 mi
• The Free Range Era of Ranching — 5.4 mi